David Sutherland's walk-off home run in the ninth lifted Brisbane past Melbourne and into a third-straight Australian Baseball League Championship Series in a dramatic semi-final clash at Holloway Field on Sunday night.

Sutherland took reliever Jon Kennedy deep to right centre field to lead-off the ninth and lift the Bandits past the Aces 9-8 and into an ABLCS against either Perth or Canberra next weekend.

Brisbane was forced to win it late after Darryl George's two-run homer - his second of the game - drew Melbourne level in the top of the ninth of a winner-takes-all semi-final.

George took Bandits' closer Ryan Searle deep with one out after Jarryd Dale's lead-off double in the ninth.

Brisbane entered the inning with a two-run cushion after Sutherland broke a tie with a two-run single in the sixth.